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Nada Bodiroga

Nada Bodiroga was born in 1956 in Slavsko Polje, in the Municipality of Vrginmost. She spent her childhood and youth in Croatia. In 1993 she started college in Belgrade. Her parents remained in Croatia, in their home in Slavsko Polje. At the outbreak of the war in the 1990s she was in Inđija, whilst most of her family spent the war in the area of SAO Krajina. Following Operation Storm, her elderly parents decided to remain in their home, hoping that no one would bother them since they had not participated in the war in anyway. Very quickly, as the refugee columns were arriving in Serbia, Nada Bodiroga gathered from the contradictory information that she received that there was a possibility of her parents having been killed. Her search for her parents went on for years until one day in 2000 when she saw an article in the Politika daily newspaper, which mentioned the murder of her parents on the doorstep of their house in Slavsko Polje. During her efforts to find her parents, and all the misfortune that went with them, she became ill with multiple sclerosis. Based on the information that she got from the newspaper, she started the search for her parents' remains. Thanks to her persistence, an exhumation was carried out, but the remains were burnt to such an extent that it made identification impossible. She is a member of the Association of Families of Missing and Killed Persons, 'Suza', and she still hopes that one day she will be able to bury her parents and mark their grave.

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Family background Suffering in WWII Brotherhood and unity Last visit to Karlovac Not believing there is a possibility for war Yugoslavia Political changes Serbian Autonomous Oblast of Krajina Arrival of refugees in Serbia Searching for parents Finding out about the murder of her parents Search for the remains of her parents Exhumation Deserted Samardžije ICTY verdicts Charred remains of home Relation to Croatia today Elusive justice
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